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Greek, Latin & Classical Studies
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899

Phone: (610) 526-5198
FAX: (610) 526-7479

Colloquia & Events

From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.

Spring 2013 Colloquium Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

Date	Speaker & Title
February 1	Robert Germany Haverford College "The Unity of Time in Menander"
February 8 *4:15 pm in Thomas Hall 110	Bernard Frischer University of Virginia “Modeling the Past: The Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project & Other New Projects” Co-sponsed by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund PLEASE NOTE: This Colloquium has been postponed to fall 2013.
February 15	George Boys-Stones Institute for Advanced Study & Durham University “Providence in ‘Middle’ Platonism”
February 22	Jan Bremmer Institute for the Study of the Ancient World & University of Groningen “From Books with Magic to Magical Books in Ancient Greece and Rome”
March 1	Nicola Terrenato Institute for Advanced Study & University of Michigan “The Embryology of Central Italian Cities: Recent Insights from Archaeology”
March 22	The Agnes Michels Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin & Classical Studies Harriet Flower Princeton University “Augustus and the Genius Augusti”
March 29	Ronnie Ancona Hunter College “‘Cave of the Heart’: The Medea of Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi”"
April 5	Milena Melfi Center for Hellenic Studies & University of Oxford “Greek Cults in a Conquered Land: Reassessing the Early Roman Presence in the Sanctuaries of Greece (146-44 BC)”
April 12	The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology Eleni Hasaki University of Arizona “From Mistakes to Masterpieces: Craft Apprenticeship in Classical Antiquity”
April 19	Wei Zhang Center for Hellenic Studies & Fudan University “Poetry and Knowledge: Greek and Chinese Perspectives”
April 26	Philippa Townsend Ursinus College “Sacrifice and Supersessionism in Early Christianity”

Fall 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Date	Speaker & Title
September 14	News from Abroad: Student Reports
September 21	Jim Marks Center for Hellenic Studies and University of Florida "Temples, Walls and Agora: The Polis in Homer and History"
October 5	Ioannis Galanakis Center for Hellenic Studies and Oxford Ashmolean "Tomb Robbers, Art Dealers and the Trafficking of Antiquities: Archaeology in 19th-century Greece"
October 26	Ioanna Patera Center for Hellenic Studies and Max Weber Kolleg "The Thesmophoria and Related Festivals of Moveable Objects"
November 2	Sara Kaczko Center for Hellenic Studies and University of Rome “Perspectives on Archaic Greek Epigrams: towards a new commentary and literary study”
November 9	Marco Fantuzzi Institute for Advanced Study and Columbia University “Achilles, Penthesileia and the killing of Thersites"
November 16	Ute Kelp Universität zu Köln "The Necropoleis of Pergamon: Early Excavations and Recent Discoveries"
November 30	Astrid Lindenlauf Bryn Mawr College “Risen from Ruins: The Rebuilding of Miletos and Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.”
December 7	Eirene Visvardi Center for Hellenic Studies and Wesleyan University “Pity and Fear in the Tragic Chorus: Negotiating the Emotional Politics of Athenian Democracy”